This happened between the hours of 3:15p.m and 6p.m on Friday 10th November 2006…
Anyone who resides in Nigeria will know that this phrase describes d biggest joke of our economy… THE NIGERIA POLICE…
They are the stupidest bunch of people put together in the entire country…
Their main goal is to harass the citizenry of the country SHAMELESSLY…
In the Police Force in my dear country Nigeria, we have the MOPOL (mobile police)….
Now don’t get me wrong o…they are not all fools, but a large majority are…
I was traveling to Benin for a friends’ wedding…I was in a vehicle with two lieutenants of The Nigerian army…
We were in the middle of nowhere (I later found out that it is just before OWENA in ONDO state)…
We were approaching a checkpoint (most of them are illegal)…when a MOPOL pointed his gun at us…
Both lieutenants reprimanded him and told him it was enough to court marshal him if he was in the Military…
The idiot started screaming and then pointed the gun at OKPOSEN and cocked it…
He then raised it slightly above Okposen’s head and shot….
My heart skipped several beats….
He then pointed the gun at Okposen’s stomach and threatened to kill him and line him up as a thief…
He shouted “you know see say eyes dey red”? While he shot…
They threatened to take us to their station and we agreed…
One of the men came to beg us… he knew they had pushed their luck as far as they could…
They insulted us all thoroughly and even threatened to slap me…
I instantly reminded them that it is against the laws of Nigeria to hit anyone with glasses…
The next thing we saw, they jumped into their S.U.V (sports utility vehicle commonly called a JEEP in 9ja) and sped off…
I had called an uncle of mine who is a commissioner of police in Nigeria, he advised me to take down their vehicle number because they were wearing bullet proofs…and I couldn’t get their identification numbers….
We followed them and lost them, but decided to get to the Area Command where we knew they came from…
They denied having fired..and denied that they brought out a crate of Gulder(an alcoholic beverage) from the bush before they ran off…
The bastard that shot at Okposen called him SIR and I almost died because of the irony…
This is only one of the many incidences of corruption that the police commit.
How can we go through life that way?
It is disgusting that they are so unstable yet are allowed to man our roads and put us all in danger…
How may I ask have they protected or served my motherland with integrity?
By cocking his gun?
Or by shooting?
Or threatening to kill and line Okposen up as a thief….
